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Lexicon :: Strong's G3957 - pascha

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πάσχα
Transliteration
pascha (Key)
Pronunciation
pas'-khah
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Aramaic origin cf פֶּסַח (H6453)
mGNT
29x in 1 unique form(s) TR
29x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
29x in 2 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:896,797

Strong’s Definitions

πάσχα páscha, pas'-khah; of Chaldee origin (compare H6453); the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it):—Easter, Passover.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's G3957 in the following manner: Passover (28x), Easter (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's G3957 in the following manner: Passover (28x), Easter (1x).

  1. the paschal sacrifice (which was accustomed to be offered for the people's deliverance of old from Egypt)

  2. the paschal lamb, i.e. the lamb the Israelites were accustomed to slay and eat on the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan (the first month of their year) in memory of the day on which their fathers, preparing to depart from Egypt, were bidden by God to slay and eat a lamb, and to sprinkle their door posts with its blood, that the destroying angel, seeing the blood, might pass over their dwellings; Christ crucified is likened to the slain paschal lamb

  3. the paschal supper

  4. the paschal feast, the feast of the Passover, extending from the 14th to the 20th day of the month Nisan

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πάσχα páscha, pas'-khah; of Chaldee origin (compare H6453); the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it):—Easter, Passover.
STRONGS G3957:
πάσχα, τό (Chaldean פִּסְחָא, Hebrew פֶּסַח, from פָּסַח, to pass over, to pass over by sparing; the Sept. also constantly use the Chaldean form πάσχα, except in 2 Chron. (and Jeremiah 38:8 (Jeremiah 31:8)) where it is φασεκ; Josephus has φασκα, Antiquities 5, 1, 4; 14, 2, 1; 17, 9, 13; b. j. 2, 1, 3), an indeclinable noun (Winers Grammar, § 10, 2); properly, a passing over;
1. the paschal sacrifice (which was accustomed to be offered for the people's deliverance of old from Egypt), or
2. the paschal lamb, i. e. the lamb which the Israelites were accustomed to slay and eat on the fourteenth day of the month Nisan (the first month of their year) in memory of that day on which their fathers, preparing to depart from Egypt, were bidden by God to slay and eat a lamb, and to sprinkle their door-posts with its blood, that the destroying angel, seeing the blood, might pass over their dwellings (Exodus 12; Numbers 9; Deuteronomy 16): θύειν τό πάσχα (הַפֶסַח שָׁחַט), Mark 14:12; Luke 22:7, (Exodus 12:21); Christ crucified is likened to the slain paschal lamb, 1 Corinthians 5:7; φαγεῖν τό πάσχα, Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12, 14; Luke 22:11, 15; John 18:28; הָפֶסַח אָכַל, 2 Chronicles 30:17f.
3. the paschal supper: ἑτοιμάζειν τό πάσχα, Matthew 26:19; Mark 14:16; Luke 22:8, 13; ποιεῖν τό πάσχα to celebrate the paschal meal, Matthew 26:18.
4. the paschal festival, the feast of Passover, extending from the fourteenth to the twentieth day of the month Nisan: Matthew 26:2; Mark 14:1; Luke 2:41; Luke 22:1; John 2:13, 23; John 6:4; John 11:55; John 12:1; John 13:1; John 18:39; John 19:14; Acts 12:4; πεποίηκε τό πάσχα he instituted the Passover (of Moses), Hebrews 11:28 (cf. Winers Grammar, 272 (256); Buttmann, 197 (170)); γίνεται τό πάσχα the Passover is celebrated (R. V. cometh), Matthew 26:2. (See BB. DD. under the word ; Dillmann in Schenkel iv., p. 392ff; and on the question of the relation of the Last Supper to the Jewish Passover, see (in addition to references in BB. DD. as above) Kirchner, die Jüdische Passahfeier u. Jesu letztes Mahl. Gotha, 1870; Keil, Com. über Matth., pp. 513-528; J. B. McClellan, The N. T. etc. i., pp. 473-494; but especially Schürer, Ueber φαγεῖν τό πάσχα, akademische Festschrift (Giessen, 1883).)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
12; 12:21
Numbers
9
Deuteronomy
16
2 Chronicles
30:17
Jeremiah
31:8; 38:8
Matthew
26:2; 26:2; 26:17; 26:18; 26:19
Mark
14:1; 14:12; 14:12; 14:14; 14:16
Luke
2:41; 22:1; 22:7; 22:8; 22:11; 22:13; 22:15
John
2:13; 2:23; 6:4; 11:55; 12:1; 13:1; 18:28; 18:39; 19:14
Acts
12:4
1 Corinthians
5:7
Hebrews
11:28

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3957 matches the Greek πάσχα (pascha),
which occurs 29 times in 28 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - ‘Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Passover of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 -

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “[fn]Bring out and take for yourselves [fn]lambs according to your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - that you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to Yahweh who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but delivered our homes.’” And the people bowed low and worshiped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 -

And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no [fn]foreigner shall eat of it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:48

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - “But if a sojourner sojourns with you and [fn]celebrates the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to [fn]celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

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“You shall not [fn]offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, and the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover shall not [fn]be left over until morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:5 - ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month [fn]at twilight is the Passover of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - “Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover at its appointed time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4 - So Moses [fn]told the sons of Israel to celebrate the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - But there were some men who were unclean because of a [fn]dead person, so that they could not celebrate Passover on that day; so they came near before Moses and Aaron on that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead [fn]person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, celebrate the Passover to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - ‘They shall leave none of it until morning nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall celebrate it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - ‘But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet [fn]neglects to celebrate the Passover, that [fn]person shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not bring near the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time. That man will bear his sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - ‘If a sojourner sojourns among you and [fn]celebrates the Passover to Yahweh, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its judgment, so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native of the land.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:16 -

‘Then on the fourteenth day of the first month shall be the Passover of Yahweh.

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They journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the [fn]next day after the Passover the sons of Israel started out [fn]with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,

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“Keep the month of Abib and [fn]celebrate the Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - “And you shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Yahweh chooses for His name to dwell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5 - “You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your gates of the towns which Yahweh your God is giving you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 - but at the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the appointed time that you came out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:10

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Then the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal and celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho.

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Then the king commanded all the people saying, “Celebrate the Passover to Yahweh your God as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - For such a Passover had not been celebrated from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and of the kings of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:19 -

And the exiles celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:20 - For the priests and the Levites had cleansed themselves together; all of them were clean. Then they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, both for their brothers the priests and for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:21 - Then the sons of Israel who returned from exile and all those who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to join them, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:21 -

“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

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